The Holy Bible

[DirkDiggledinho]

The Manic Street Preachers album, that is.

 

What do you people think of it? It had something indescribably dark and not quite of this world about it that I've never heard anywhere else and don't think I will hear ever again. The kind of thing very few bands ever achieve.

 

Nevertheless, it frustrates me every time I listen to it as some of the songs just sound half-finished and makes me think that, what is IMO a really great album could have been the greatest of all time.

 

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[Pony Princess]

Have a rep. It really is a bleak, grim, awesome album.

 

Did you listen to Journal for Plague Lovers? I think it was the closest the manics have ever been to returning to THB, considering most of JFPL (all of it maybe?) was written by Richie.

 

I saw them in Liverpool Uni last year and they were fucking amazing, seen them 3 times now. They played a few tracks off THB; Faster and Yes, IIRC.

 

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[Pony Princess]

Just realized we joined at the same time. I'm pyarrr gonna get accused of Nantwich Gut Snow-ery now!

[KinskiRage]

Such a great, dark, ominous sound on this album. Everything about it just reeks of snarling, sneering human cruelty, horror and despair. I love it, and it's probably the only manics album I revisit regularly if I'm honest.

[DirkDiggledinho]

Have a rep. It really is a bleak, grim, awesome album.

 

Did you listen to Journal for Plague Lovers? I think it was the closest the manics have ever been to returning to THB, considering most of JFPL (all of it maybe?) was written by Richie.

 

I saw them in Liverpool Uni last year and they were fucking amazing, seen them 3 times now. They played a few tracks off THB; Faster and Yes, IIRC.

 

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Yep, it's brilliant.

 

William's last words is one of the saddest things I've ever heard.

[Teflon Don]

A great album that I've not listened to for too long. It also produced this, which allegedly resulted in a record number of complaints for a Top Of The Pops performance.

 

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[DirkDiggledinho]

A great album that I've not listened to for too long. It also produced this, which allegedly resulted in a record number of complaints for a Top Of The Pops performance.

 

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Haha, Vic and Bob didn't look like they were expecting that!

[cochcaer]

A postcard from Richey's neurosis. This is Yesterday is achingly beautiful.

[Mendoza]

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[Total Longo]

A postcard from Richey's neurosis. This is Yesterday is achingly beautiful.

 

This is the greatest version i've heard of that song, from 1.41 in, just astounding.

 

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[chauncey]

When I heard this album for the first time aged fourteen, it changed everything for me.

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I've always had nothing but mild disdain for the Manics.

 

To be honest I haven't really listened to their music much, because I'm not really interested what a bunch of poetry-reading, angsty, overgrwon sixth-formers in eye-liner do musically.

 

I did laugh a bit when the skinny, dead one got all upset about what Steve Lamacq said about the band, and sliced his arm up.

[Uncle_Meat]

I saw them live at Glastonbury in 1999. I had just recharged myself up with various pharmaceuticals, and was just starting to come up when they started with You Stole The Sun.

 

I'm not a massive fan of the band, but in that moment they were golden.